City of Endless Night Quotes

“to be a witness to evil is to be human.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, City of Endless Night

“—every single decent lead has gone to hell. I feel like I’m rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain.”
“My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, City of Endless Night: Library Edition

“He was glad to see the agent back in form, at least superficially, his finely chiseled face so pale that it might have been crafted from marble, his eyes especially bright in the cool wash of natural light that filled the space. He was, however, as thin as a damn scarecrow.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night, Free Preview

“I feel like I’m rolling a ball of shit up an endless mountain.” “My dear Vincent, Sisyphus would be proud.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“And what better place to sow vengeance—to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night?”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“I had everyone from the mayor on down climbing up my ass…”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“Not in a million years would I have guessed this.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“The rich will always be with us.’ There is no answer, except to make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“video”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“No, you don’t destroy the rich—you do as Jesus did, and convert them.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy—and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide—between those who strive to do good, and those who strive only for themselves. Money magnifies the harm the wealthy can do, of course, allowing them to parade their vulgarity and malfeasance in full view of the rest of us.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“You,” he began. “You bastards.” Silence. “Where was the FBI these past four days? This was your fault—your fault!” His voice, starting out in a whisper, crescendoed by the end into a roar, spittle flecking his lips.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“Mr. Ozmian,” said Pendergast, in his quietest, smoothest voice, “we have bad news: your daughter is dead.” The man looked as if he’d just been shot. He actually staggered and had to grip the side of a chair in order to keep himself upright. His face instantly drained of all color; his lips moved, but only an unintelligible whisper came out. He was like a dead man standing. He swayed again and D’Agosta took a step over to him, grasping his arm and shoulder. “Sir, let’s sit down.” The man nodded mutely and allowed himself to be steered into a chair. He felt as light as a feather in D’Agosta’s grasp.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“Bending over the severed neck, his face less than an inch from the wound, he maneuvered his tweezers under the loupe, dug them into the neck—D’Agosta almost had to turn away—and stretched out what looked like a rubber band but was obviously a large vein. He snipped off a short piece and dropped it in a test tube, dug around some more, pulled out another vein, snipped and stored it, as well. And then he spent another several minutes examining the massive wound, the tweezers and test tubes in almost constant employment.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“He stepped back to let Pendergast do his thing, but he was surprised to see the agent not going through his usual rigmarole, with the test tubes and tweezers and loupes appearing out of nowhere and interminable fussing around.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“But now I feel rather like Br’er Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch, because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Natural History Museum.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“The best way to not think of something is to possess it fully, and then cultivate indifference.”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“were not shouting anything, just silently”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“ratiocinate”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“antimacassars”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night

“frisson”
― Douglas Preston, City of Endless Night